Today in History - History - May 25th

1969Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational

1842Christian Doppler presents his idea, now known as the Doppler Effect, to the Royal Bohemian Society, Prague

2011Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

1927Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford

1660King Charles II of England lands in Dover

1951NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)

1981Carl Yastrzemski is 4th to get 3,000 hits (Cobb, Musial & Aaron)

1980Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic

1986KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit

194830th PGA Championship: Ben Hogan at Norwood Hills CC St Louis

1803Ralph Waldo Emerson, Boston Massachusetts, American essayist/philosopher (Concord Hymn)

1907Rachel Carson, conservationist/writer (silent springs)

1926Bill Sharman, Abilene Texas, Hall of Fame basketball player (Boston Celtics)

1889Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft

1939Ian McKellen, England, actor (Keep, Plenty, Scarlet Pimpernel)

1969Anne Heche, Aurora Ohio, actress (Donnie Brasco, Juror, Volcano)

1898Chocolatier Milton S. Hershey (40) weds Catherine Sweeney at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City

1965Boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson (44) weds Millie Bruce in Los Angeles

1940MLB outfielder Stan Musial (19) weds his high school sweetheart Lillian Labash in Daytona Beach

1957NFL coach Chuck Noll (25) weds first wife Marianne Noll

1661King Charles II marries Portuguese princess Catherina the Braganca

1901Russian physician, dramatist and author Anton Chekhov marries actress Olga Knipper

1919Madame C. J. Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 51

1954Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist (b. 1913)